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ACADEMIC OUTFIT BY HENRI DUPUY DE LOME (1816–1885).
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ACADEMIC OUTFIT BY HENRI DUPUY DE LOME (1816–1885).
See original version (French)
Estimate €1,000 - €1,500
Voluntary lot
Description
ACADEMIC OUTFIT BY HENRI DUPUY DE LOME (1816–1885).
-Black cloth coat embroidered with olive leaves in green thread on the collar, front panel, facings, waist bow and tails.
Black satinette lining.
Marked ‘DUSAUTOY’, tailor to His Majesty the Emperor.
-Black cloth trousers with woven-in stripes. Buttons marked ‘LONDON FASHION PARIS’
As found (with missing sections and tears). Second Empire period.
Expert: Arnaud de Gouvion Saint-Cyr
Provenance | Henri Dupuy de Lôme, then by descent
Biography |
Stanislas Henri Laurent Dupuy de Lôme
Engineer in the French Navy (Ploemeur 1816–Paris 1885).
He built the first steamship, the Napoléon (1850), and the first armoured frigate, the Gloire (1858), which served as a model for the Second Empire navy. Member of the Council of State and Member of Parliament for Morbihan. In 1870, he succeeded in getting sixty airships out of besieged Paris. He had been a member of the Academy of Sciences since 1866.
See original version (French)
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